README.md

hello_worker

A simple hello world IronWorker that shows how to deal with Ruby dependencies (gems) and run your first worker!

Setup your Iron account (if you don't have one yet)

First off, you need an Iron.io account, if you don't have one go sign up for a free account.

Second, you need to have your iron.json file setup and the iron CLI tool installed.

Now you can get cracking!

Usage

This worker just says hello, so the optional payload for is just a name, see payload.json.

You can just use this worker directly by queuing up a job for treeder/hello_worker.

Build and test the worker

First, vendor the dependencies:

docker run --rm -v $PWD:/app -w /app treeder/bundle

Now build the image:

docker build -t treeder/hello_worker:latest .

And test it:

docker run --rm -e "PAYLOAD_FILE=/iron/payload.json" -v $PWD:/iron treeder/hello_worker

Sweet, it works! We mount /iron directory so the payload is available and we don't set the working directory on docker run since the working directory is built into the image.

Now we just push it to Docker Hub:

docker push treeder/hello_worker

And starting queuing up jobs for it to run on IronWorker!

Queuing up tasks for this image on IronWorker

You can queue up tasks for it in any language. Check out our Client Libraries in the language of your choice to make it easy, but here's an example using the cli:

iron worker queue --payload '{"name": "Travis"}' --wait treeder/hello_worker

or with curl:

$ curl -d '{"tasks": [{"code_name": "treeder/hello_worker", "payload": "{\"name\": \"Travis\"}"}]}' --header "Authorization: OAuth YOUR_IRON_TOKEN" --header "Content-Type: application/json" https://worker-aws-us-east-1.iron.io/2/projects/YOUR_PROJECT_ID/tasks

Or in your language of choice. Here's a Ruby example: (see enqueue.rb to run a bunch):

require 'iron_worker'
client = IronWorker::Client.new()
client.tasks.create('treeder/hello_worker', {name: "Travis"})

For clients in other languages, see the Iron.io Dev Center.